I watched the race, (yes, it was a looonng day of racing for me) and Churchill held on with a very brave effort. The Guineas is run on Newmarket's straight mile and there's a rise in the ground in the last furlong or so. It's quite a stamina test, even if it's 'just' a mile. http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... -churchill

MySaladDays wrote:Also across the pond, i guess you guys heard that Rapper Dragon, probably the best horse in Hong Kong, suffered a fatal injury. He was their Triple Crown winner.

I posted about it in the gelding topic where there was already rapper dragon posts.

No disappointment in the KY Derby could make me as sad as I am from hearing this.

Losing Rapper Dragon is heartbreaking, he really looked like he could be the next Hong Kong superstar. He hadn't won an international G1 yet but he had swept plenty of the best local races. Really too bad.

ElPrado2 wrote:If one of the parents is grey, you have a 50 percent
chance of getting a grey, unless that is a double dose. Then it's 100 percent.

Not quite that much.
If one of the parents is a heterozygous grey (ie if they only have one copy of the grey gene) it's 25%
If both parents are heterozygous grey that's 50%
If one of the parents is a homozygous grey that's 100%

Quite chuffed that Brametot won the French 2,000 Guineas, giving handsome sire Rajsaman a classic winner in his first crop. Always love to see the Linamix line continue to do well, even if his grandson isn't a grey. Hooray for the little horse with "a bonny face and a big heart."

The Coolmore juggernaut continues: Churchill and Winter completed their respective English-Irish Guineas doubles this weekend. O'Brien trained the first three home in the Irish 1000 Guineas. The winner of the Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1), Decorated Knight, is by Galileo (although not owned by Coolmore).

Well that's not good...Daddys Lil Darling has bolted down the course and dumped her rider. She has been caught, but I don't think she's a runner.
Yes, she's scratched. What a shame. After all the prep and shipping across The Pond, to have her withdrawn at the gate.

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Well that's not good...Daddys Lil Darling has bolted down the course and dumped her rider. She has been caught, but I don't think she's a runner.
Yes, she's scratched. What a shame. After all the prep and shipping across The Pond, to have her withdrawn at the gate.

Maybe she was smart enough to know she wanted no part of Epsom. The thunder and lightning probably didn't help, either.